Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Africa that it chooses. When the inevitable showdown in Southern Africa finally arrives in its fullest, the white regime will be able to threaten the people of the continent with nuclear Armageddon. Indeed it is doing so already. "South Africa's nuclear dominance is the result of a conscious decision of the regime to achieve military supremacy..." says Morton...
...legend lives on--a self-conscious parody of itself. Confederate flags grace the rear windows of countless Le Sabres (of the Buick variety), and the endless parade of hypesters, from Ted Turner to the late Colonel Sanders, parade themselves in front of a beguiled public as something unique--something Southern. Of course, one would be hard pressed, once one looked beneath the drawl, to find anything unique at all. The South is as distressingly prime-time American as any other section of the country, perhaps even more so. We would like the South to be different; to be a hopeless...
...sound, not of yarns spinning off into the night air, but of men who have chucked the mint julip at their wives and are skyrocketing down the interstate with the top down, their voices drowned out by the rush of the slipstream. It is the voice of the self-conscious who have adopted customs for no good reasons, in a nation which needs that sort of thing. It is the voice of men like...
...these changes be wrapped into the first tax bill. The President instead decided to propose at first a "simple and clean" depreciation and income-tax bill that Congress just might be persuaded to pass swiftly. He will present other tax changes later. By doing so, Reagan is running a conscious risk that Congress will be tempted to festoon the first bill with all kinds of amendments embodying legislators' pet tax ideas...
Sadat, accompanied by his wife Jehan, next flew to Paris for what had been billed as a two-day private visit to the French capital. Instead, it had all the makings of a state affair. Accompanied by his wife Anne-Aymone, the protocol-conscious Giscard broke with custom by meeting the Sadats at the airport (something he never does unless it is an official state visit), escorted them on a leisurely tour of the city, then hosted a lunch at the Elysee Palace. Afterward, Giscard and Sadat spent two hours talking privately...